Love on the run: Elgin power couple in 2022 Commonwealth bids

Elgin’s Cameron Main will be joined by his girlfriend Sophia Green in bidding for places in the Scotland triathlon squad for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

The Moray duo are determined to pull out all the stops to achieve their goal and if recent form is anything to go by, then few people would write off their chances.

While Main slashed 53 seconds from his previous best time when recording 13:53 at the Podium 5k in Lancashire, Green was doing an equally impressive demolition job on her own PB in the same race.

The 21-year-old from Elgin recorded 16:13 to finish 26 seconds behind Great Britain international Mhairi Maclennan (Inverness Harriers).

Main said: “She didn’t have an official time before that, although I paced her to a 17:23 run last year, so it’s a huge improvement on that. That’s very impressive. Not many British triathletes can run faster at under-23 level. She’s also a strong swimmer and cyclist, so she’s definitely aiming for Birmingham.”

Main and Green benefitted from training together in Elgin for four or five months during last year’s lockdown.

Main said: “I stayed at Sophia’s family home and we were able to motivate ourselves to train. She had a small pool built in the back garden and we were able to go in there with wetsuits. We also did turbo sessions on a bike in her garage.

“Lockdown wasn’t a problem as we got a lot of consistent training done. We had no lack of motivation. I feel we are running so well now because we haven’t been going all over the place doing competitions. We’ve had plenty of recovery time as well as hard training.”